Word: reached
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...privilege of staying in business. Chicago's "rackets," as they are called, developed out of the Prohibition graft system, where Federal agents extort money from blind-piggers for protection. One of the most profitable "rackets" in the Chicago underworld is in the cleaning and dyeing industry. The profits reach $1,500,000 per annum. Credit for bringing the "racket" to its Chicagoan perfection belongs largely to Timothy D. ("Big Tim") Murphy-who last week became the late Timothy Murphy. A towering burly who relied largely upon his fists in his hard-shooting environment, he rose to be a political...
Profits. Hupp Motor Car Corp. declared an extra dividend and announced that its net profits for the first six months of 1928 would reach a new record of $4,000,000. The H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Co. (air-cooled motors) resumed dividends on common stock for the first time since...
...Manhattan, one Charles Callan, a kindly looking old gentleman with bushy white hair, walked up to the poor box in St. Joseph's Church. Prying it open, he was about to reach in and seize its contents when a blinding light bedazzled him and he ran away...
...stands full six feet tall. No brittle yellowman he, but broad and bronzed and bland. Bible in hand or coat pocket. Pistol within arms reach. Devout Christian. Dead shot. Master of the world's largest private army-195,000 men. Such today is China's Strongest Man: Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, pronounced "Fung U-sheeang...
...Ladder is the current Broadway play with the longest run. On the last day of June it will reach its 660th performance. In the duration of its run legends have grown up about the members of The Ladder's cast, its author, a friend of the producer, whose name is supposed to have been forgotten, its audiences, but most of all the staunch oil man who is its angel. At Houston, the man who got $10,000,000 in oil almost overnight was given an overnight boom for the U. S. Vice Presidency...